Monthly Archives: August 2011

Heavy rain has been falling in recent weeks on the burn area near Los Alamos, NM – which has led to flash flooding that threatens the Bandelier National Monument headquarters. http://www.santafenewmexican.com/

http://irene.windalert.com/

Jeff B says: August 28, 2011 at 1:35 am Are you using the maximum value for the entire storm system measured at 10m height from an unobstructed location? That’s the textbook standard for the Saffir-Simpson Scale. I was in Hurricane Rita … Continue reading →

Two skeptic blogs in the top five on WordPress today. WUWT is always in the top five. http://botd.wordpress.com/?lang=en

http://abcnews.go.com/

Gusts at NCAR’s Foothills Lab were clocked at 75 miles per hour, while 80-mph winds were recorded about 25 miles north of Boulder. Some NCAR employees who were blown across the parking lot or observed windows shaking in the Mesa … Continue reading →

There have not been any recent SFMR data…but based on the earlier sharp discrepancy between the flight-level and surface winds…the initial intensity is reduced to 70 kt. A slow weakening is expected as Irene moves along the coast of the … Continue reading →

Some of the worst storms in Texas have been tropical storms, rather than hurricanes. A slow moving tropical storm can dump huge amounts of rain.

The costliest storm in Colorado history was on July 11, 1990, with $625 million in insured hail damage, or about $1 billion in today’s dollars, association Executive Director Carole Walker said. http://www.aspentimes.com/